The First to Be Seen

"Ughh…" A black-haired boy in a school uniform woke himself up being in a state in which garbages are the first one that he saw.

"What passionless garbages", he said as he looks around the surrounding.

Stood up and observed his appearance only to realize that there is nothing that has changed on his looks. He's clean and even smells good.

"... And what am I doing here again?" he asked himself.

But.

"Nah, who cares. Everything that I do is passionless anyway."

Earlier, the God of Eyes had just given him the Unliving Eyes. He, who was the one that forced that God to give it to him, had just forgotten.

In peculiar situations, when two different stages are in a state in which they can see, hear, or even smell each other, after from the time that the lower stage did so until the time he will be unconscious, he will forget about the occurrence.

So, in other words, he had forgotten about his encounter with that God, which is in the body of Pedro, a homeless person which he knows because of the fact that they run into each other very often from when the boy is still in his freshman year.

On the other side, before the boy woke up, Pedro already did. He saw the boy but hadn't care and just walked away, thinking that because they are close, the boy slept beside him when he was sleeping.

… No, they are not really close.

"What am I doing here, in Pedro's place?"

Did Pedro drag him here? He too is unwary about how Pedro will act.

In a sense, they don't really interact even though they often give morning greetings to each other. Not that they are the same in every way, but the boy is particularly not sociable, while Pedro is just doubtful and skeptical.

"... He's not bad, but he's a mysterious guy."

Going back to the current situation of the boy, standing up already, he finally began to walk towards the street.

But suddenly, something had stopped him from doing so.

*Clatter* *Creak*, the garbage plastics then began to produce sounds as they are being crept.

Eventually, a garbage plastic was unsealed and debris scattered.

All of a sudden, something from its inside then appeared in the boy's view.

"Ha, what the… Is that...?" a question arose as he then saw something unusual.

It is a dog, a Shiba Inu one. It is a small Shiba Inu having the color of the foxes, much more like to be a puppy one, rather.

"What the, a puppy?"

It is already strange enough for a Shiba Inu puppy in the garbages, but it became weirder when the boy realized that it is still clean whilst being inside a garbage plastic.

Too clean indeed...

"..." The boy was left dumbfounded.

He walk back towards the garbage area and went close to the puppy crouching and staring at it.

Respectively, the puppy stares back at him.

The boy doesn't understand how powerful the cuteness of a Shiba Inu puppy is.

The puppy knew that its passive cuteness was ineffective against the boy, because in the first place…

But it looks like the crimson eyes of the boy are looking in the eyes of the puppy. Still, the puppy didn't farce and looked away from the boy and steered at the garbages.

Suddenly.

"It looked away. But it seems to be passionate about being in the garbages."

Without much due, the puppy caught on to what the boy was talking about. Because in the first place…

"Wait, you can… see me?" the puppy can understand and talk the human language.

With a low-pitched voice, more like a guy in his 20s, it is then known that the puppy is a male.

"What the… you can talk?" the boy replied full of wonder. It is not that he has feelings of interest, it's part of humans already to think and wonder.

"Of course, I can." the puppy responded like what he, because of the fact that it was a male that can talk the human language, had just said was normal. "But still, you are the first one to see me after…"

"... After what?" the boy asked once more.

Nevertheless, what piqued the puppy's interest more is...

"... Anyway, why the hell can you see me?" why someone like "him" can see the puppy.

"What do you mean I can see you? Of co-"

Suddenly.

"No, I'm already dead." he went straight to his point.

The puppy finally dropped the word "dead". The word which the boy always hears in his own voice from inside his mind.

"... Okay so now I can see the dead, great."

"What the? Great? Why are you so calm, Human?"

"...I'm passionless."

"? What do you mean passionless?"

"... I can't feel a considerable amount of emotions."

"Oh, really?"

"... Yeah. I can't feel deep feeli-"

Suddenly, "No way. No way no way no way!!" the puppy interrupted the boy. "That can't possibly happen!!"

"... Huh? Why are you suddenly…" the boy was left dumbfounded.

Well, why you say, boy. From the looks of it, you did it in here. The thing that you did earlier. Your sadistic personality was shown right after thinking that you might die.

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On the other side that time, there was a puppy inside a garbage plastic.

It was sleeping peacefully. But eventually was interrupted by two loud idiots.

"Hahahaha!!" The first thing it heard was the laugh of a young teenage boy. "It hurts!! But it's great!!"

'What the… Hurt but great?', the puppy wondered.

Being curious about the sadistic laugh followed by sentences that depict dying, it then went and peeked at the outside from the garbage plastic that it was at.

Finally, the first one that it had seen was literally a young black-haired boy in a student uniform sadistically laughing. And there was also a person in shattered clothes approaching him.

But when the puppy stared at the eyes of the shattered-clothing person, suddenly, fear then detained the puppy like it was approaching to it like a blow of wind that came out from a void.

Anxiety, fear, a red-blooded terror, and dismay. Great dreading went inside the mind of the puppy.

'Nonono!! Why?!!' the puppy cried out as it went back hiding inside the garbage plastic.

Why is it feeling like that? What happened? The puppy also questioned itself.

But throughout the things that it had tried to realize, the puppy catches one certain attention.

And it is that the shattered-clothing person was powerful enough to even blow this place with a single snap of its fingers, much more to be the whole solar system, that is…

'THAT THING… WHAT THE HELL?!!'

The puppy was intensively frightened to the point of peeing itself out.

*Swewewesh~~*

But throughout the feeling of fear and anxiety, it was still conscious and concerned of one thing.

'It doesn't matter to me anymore since I am already dead and is in the afterlife' which is what the puppy thought throughout after realizing that it is still conscious and alive as a ghost wandering the same place, the same city.

So in other words, it can't feel fear of anything anymore because, from the roots themselves, it is already dead. Nothing to fear from extinction.

'Nonono!!'

But every little thing that it had realized before was then shattered just that easily because of one irritating existence. And it is none other than the shattered-clothing person.

'MOMOMOMONSTER!!', the puppy shouted in its mind out of dismay.

And eventually, it fainted. The puppy fainted and peed itself out being surrounded all around the debris whilst still being clean.

But coincidentally, the puppy may have not known about it because it was already unconscious, but the fact that the atmosphere around the puppy inside the garbage turned back to normal rather than the bloody-red ether that the entity had brought meant that the entity itself was gone... in the solar system.

Going back to the present situation, the puppy peed itself out, again.

But thinking about it, the black-haired boy is still alive despite encountering that monster face-to-face. That must mean…

"Wait, why are you still alive?" that something was wrong.

"Hmm? What do you mean?"

"I thought you will be dead for sure."

The puppy, seeing a human dying throughout the week since it died, realized that when humans also die, before going up above, their souls remain as ghosts wandering all-around places. But one thing it was sure of, is that every ghost each has white fire just above their heads.

But because since the first time he saw the boy, which was earlier after it peed itself and fainted out, the puppy already knew that the boy was still alive at that time, because there was no white fire above him. As for "Pedro", the puppy hasn't known that, unlike the boy, "Pedro" had a white fire above his head.

Going back, he knew that "Pedro" was something that must not be there at that time. So of course, he thought something was inaccurate.

Looking above the head of the boy, the puppy then said. "But now that you are still alive… that must mean…"

Firstly, the puppy saw that "monster" approaching the boy while being irritated.

'That must mean that freaking monster was trying to kill the boy.' He came up with his first thought.

Secondly, the atmosphere around the place was back to what it was before the puppy realized the monster's existence is close to it.

'That must mean that the monster fled away from here.' He came up with his second thought.

But lastly, the reason the monster was not here anymore and that the boy is still alive…

'That must mean… that the boy is… STRONGER?!!'

"...WH-WHAT THE…" The puppy uttered as he was left dumbfounded.

Meanwhile, the boy was still staring at the scared puppy.

'What a passionate puppy it is.' he thought.

After declaring it in his mind, he then began to take a step towards walking into the street and onwards the school.

But suddenly…

"Wa-Wait, human!!" the puppy interrupted the boy's ambling.

The boy stood still as he heard the puppy's voice once more. "Hmmm…?"

"I'll go with you!!"

After the boy heard what the puppy said, without a single bit of thinking "... Meh, who cares. Not like anyone except me can see you anyway." he then said a combination of words passionlessly.

"Y-Yes I'll go with you!!"

"... Yeah, you can go with me. For now."

"No, I meant forever!!"

"... Meh. And also, I'm not human, I'm Valentin Nobez."

"O-Okay then Valentin Nobez!!"

"What about you? So what's your name?" the boy said as he thought about coming up with something to call the puppy in times of "emergency".

"I'm Espiridion." the puppy replied without delay.

"What... too long. I should call you Espion from now on."

"Okay then, Tin!!"

"... Tin again, huh..."

The boy had then finally fleed from the garbage space and is now back walking in the street towards his destination, the school.

The puppy walked beside him… cautiously.

It is currently thinking if the boy is a good person. But deep inside, it is overly cautious about the monster.

But eventually, 'Haiz~' it freed itself from overthinking right after realizing that he has the boy beside him.

'Hmph!! That monster is scared of this boy. That can't do anything to me anymore!! Hahaha-' *cough* *cough*

And as usual, the boy is overly and internally… bored.

But…

"Seems like I'll be surrounded by passionate people someday." he spoke as he started to realize that something unusual is coming into his life.

... And there it is, the first official chronic of "Valentin Nobez's" live stream.

I'm Helver, the current god of the major planet, Earth. See you on the next live stream.

No, not like I can hear you guys in there on the original realm watching this anyway.

[But you can hear me!! You dork kid!! Hahaha!!]

What the? The Go-

[And why am I labeled as a monster!! You are a bad narrator!! I shou-]

Muteee~~

There it is guys, you heard him.

The God of Eyes is the mastermind of all of this.

Next up is the first day of the boy's school life. What will happen to him following the situations that had happened earlier? Will he be known to some dead people in the street he is walking to or will he not?

Maybe it's still not for the next episode, maybe it is. Well, you won't know if you do not~

So be sure to stick with me in this Livestream.

Bye!!

Anyway, here's some additional Information for the vessels who don't know yet:

Chronic- In here, it is like a day in the original realm where the current "everyone" is. A chronic's duration changes naturally and doesn't have a pattern of its changing pace. The Earth is a major planet, that's why most terms that humans have created are being generally used. Also, it is because of some great Vessels which were born on this planet.